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went to my first protest today :33 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 234 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Also don't wear any clothing you bought from a unique Etsy store (or any store you physically visited and paid with a card).

The clothes you wear to the protest should also be bought from a thrift store that you visited without your cellphone and paid for the clothing in cash.

Otherwise, yes, your clothing purchases are tracked, and the young lady who torched a cop car during the George Floyd protests was literally found by the FBI searching Etsy purchase records for people who had bought that shirt.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/lore-blumenthal-philly-protests-george-floyd-sentencing-20220728.html

Other options are facial recognition defeating clothing like this:

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/07/cap_able-facial-recognition-blocking-clothing/

Or this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2496686/anti-cctv-reflectacle-glasses-will-let-criminals-evade-the-law-and-activists-dodge-the-surveillance-state/

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But neither of those help when we're dealing with stuff like Gait Analysis.

For help with that, we must turn to the Ministry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I highly suspect the "adverserial attack" clothes are gonna work, it seems more like they are just taking advantage of a buzz word and it goes against not wearing easily identifiable clothes (you will be one of a handful of people wearing your stylish riot sweater). Carry a concealed ski mask with you and wear it when you need to and keep it hidden when not (so you don't get easily identified as a rioter and become a target when alone).

[-] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 months ago

I think they work, but will quickly be defeated. Facial recognition is nothing more than advanced pattern recognition. This clothing works by confusing the pattern the AI is trained to recognize. That may work with current models, but all it takes is to train the AI on what this adversarial clothing looks like so it can differentiate it from actual faces.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 7 points 7 months ago

Assuming they get you on video, it would be trivial to crop out the clothes and give the algorithm only your face.

[-] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

That's certainly true. I think the more effective method is using makeup/face paint instead. But any of these methods are designed to confuse AI, they fall apart as soon as there's any human intervention.